That is not what I meant by a UI knob, and I sure hope you knew that. By UI knob I mean something easily discoverable and self-explanatory. Rooting around a gated (with a mighty strong warning, I should add) config section for something called "normandy" is not intuitive, and it's not self-explanatory.
And I sure hope that by disclosed to users I did not mean some Hitchhiker's Guide-esque disclaimer on a wiki page. Something as (potentially) insidious as a preferences backdoor should absolutely be disclosed to users with the same level of visibility as the stories nonsense.
Perhaps "normandy" is entirely harmless, but you guys lost a metric fuckton of credibility by using your backdoors to spam people[1]. Playing coy does nothing to improve your credibility or reputation.
That is not what I meant by a UI knob, and I sure hope you knew that. By UI knob I mean something easily discoverable and self-explanatory. Rooting around a gated (with a mighty strong warning, I should add) config section for something called "normandy" is not intuitive, and it's not self-explanatory.
And I sure hope that by disclosed to users I did not mean some Hitchhiker's Guide-esque disclaimer on a wiki page. Something as (potentially) insidious as a preferences backdoor should absolutely be disclosed to users with the same level of visibility as the stories nonsense.
Perhaps "normandy" is entirely harmless, but you guys lost a metric fuckton of credibility by using your backdoors to spam people[1]. Playing coy does nothing to improve your credibility or reputation.
1: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/18/mozilla_mr_robot_fi...